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The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever
Bike Index and StolenBicycleRegistry.com merge, forming registration powerhouse
Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus
Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies
The no-bid deal is five times the size of the agency's previous contract with the Massachusetts company and could put devices in agents' hands by late June.
User Disengagement
User disengagement is the product and business development philosophy we follow at Zerodha, the anti-thesis of user "engagement".
Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers
Discover Firebase, Google’s mobile and web app development platform that helps developers build apps and games that users will love.
Examples of marketing tactics
Learn how the world's fastest growing companies have hacked their way to success with innovative products, viral promotions and ingenious marketing campaigns. [6500 words]
From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10
I’ve been working on the FullCalendar for a really long time.
Help Make “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” a Reality
Readers of my blog know I’ve been going to Shenzhen for some time now. I’ve taken my past decade of experience and created a tool, in the form of a book, that can help makers, hackers, and entrepreneurs unlock the potential of the electronics markets in Shenzhen. I’m looking for your help to enable a print run of this…
Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
A huge Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car, where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies.
Most gamers prefer single-player games
It’s no secret that the bulk of AAA games market revenues come from in-game purchases , mostlyfrom live-service games. It’s also impossible to ignore that the live-service market is fiercely competitive.
Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming
Chia is a few months old, and we are already witnessing the impact of Chia on all our products. Speculative farmers are forcing their way in to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible.
Last gasps of the rent seeking class?
Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on…
The Price-Fixing Economy
New information coming to light in Amazon and meat price-fixing antitrust cases shows inflation is probably being driven by consolidation in the form of data sharing.
Vivaldi Browser 5.0
Get all of the highlights and details of this release by visiting the blog. Read the release blog • [New][Themes] Theme sharing (VB-38363) • [New][Translate][Panel] Provide a new way to translate…
Amazon Has an Honesty Issue
We recently ordered a high-value item from Amazon (for Prime delivery), but it was stolen from within their delivery chain. Amazon initially accepted that there was an issue but have staunchly tried t
Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions
In December of last year, we paused the planned deprecation of Manifest V2 in order to address developer feedback and deliver better solutions to migration issues . As a result of this feedback, we’ve made a number of changes to Manifest V3 to close these gaps , including: